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Finally: The anti-drone hoodie

It does not, it’s fair to say, make its wearer look especially cool. But that’s not really what this hoodie is about. It has been designed to hide me from the thermal imaging systems of unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles – drones. And, as far as I can tell, it’s working well.

“It’s what I call anti-drone,” explains designer Adam Harvey. “That’s the sentiment. The material in the anti-drone clothing is made of silver, which is reflective to heat and makes the wearer invisible to thermal imaging.”

The “anti-drone hoodie” is the central attraction of Harvey’s Stealth Wear exhibition, which opened in central London last week, billed as a showcase for “counter-surveillance fashions”. It is a field Harvey has been pioneering for three years now, making headlines in the tech community along the way.

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If you were born with testicles, you should never refer to your own nipples. Especially in print. Especially in the first sentence of an article. This is not a point of reference for the geometry of the male body. It’s a chest pocket, not a nipple pocket, for instance. You measure your jacket size around the widest part of your chest, not at your nipples. And yes, the reason you were beaten frequently as a child, and then a youth, and then a young man, and probably to this day, is that you do not have the sense to not dress like a douche for a published photograph and then proceed to describe the article of clothing you donned in reference to your nipples. Idiot.

The hat I saw at a gun show was better. It was a ball cap that had a bunch of high powered IR LEDs around the bill. It pretty much made your face invisible to any cameras trying to take a picture of your face. You didn’t even notice the LEDS unless you looked close and the light they emit can’t be seen by people.